How We Edit @Mark Growth
This document is for internal use.
When we receive a new submission at Mark Growth, we have a couple things to think about before hitting publish or reject. Here’s how we want to proceed in both cases.
Accepting a Submission
If you want to accept a story, great! This means that it meets our submission policies which you can find at http://medium.com/marketing-102/policies, or more specifically :
Without reading the policies, you can act on a submission by remembering these general requirements that every submission must meet:
- Be at least somewhat business — preferably marketing and growth hacking — related. While we are focused on marketing and growth hacking, we want to grow our content base across all areas of business.
- Be more than just an advertisement for a certain service or product. All articles should add value to our readers beyond showing them a new product or service.
If a submission meets those two marks, we should accept it in most cases. If an editor is unsure how to proceed, the editor should always refer to the submissions policies linked above.
Publish the Submission
We need to ensure we have three things checked before publishing a submission.
- It should have a featured image. If it does not, the editor should create/find one by using a tool like Canva. Images that we do not own the rights to must be royalty free; the editor can obtain free stock photos by using a service like Unsplash.com
- In the case where an article is submitted without a featured image, we reserve the right to add a featured image with graphic design as we see fit.
- Add everything listed in the “What We Add to Submissions” document.
That’s it. Because we are more focussed on the content of the submission than achieving a high level of correct grammar, once you’ve taken a quick look through the submission and met the above marks, hit publish if the writer has not already scheduled the article to be published at a certain time.
Rejecting a Submission
If you are going to reject a submission, that’s unfortunate. We try to keep our acceptance rate up by maintaining writers who thrive to meet our policies.
If it is the writer’s first time submitting a piece that does not meet our policies, the editor, if time permits, should reject the article and let the writer know why this action has been taken through a private note.
If this is the the writer’s first time missing the mark of our submission policies, the editor should reject the submission and move on to the next.
If the writer is a repeat offender, it might be time to remove them from our writing team with a note explaining why this action had to be taken. We hope to keep this rare as it has not been a big issue in the past.
More editor resources can be accessed here:
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